My favorite word is 'Faggot', and I have a damn good reason behind it.
You don’t want to let that one hang and have people fill in the blank for themselves.
Faggot is a bundle of sticks, and probably comes from the Latin Fascis, or bundle of wood, from which the Fasces, or a bundle of wood surrounding an axe, which was a symbol of Roman authority, and we get the term 'Fascist' from that.
Nobody really knows how the term came to be a pejorative for homosexuals, but it is suspected it was originally applied to old women who gathered and sold firewood, and eventually came to be applied to people like you.
check element if you still use it
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